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...First "encyclopedia" of climatic conditions throughout North America and the West Indian region has been prepared by Harvard meteorologists, in cooperation with government scientists of the United States, Alaska, Canada, and Mexico, it was announced yesterday...
Presenting the most accurate and complete data yet available for this region, the new "encyclopedia" is expected to be of use to weather scientists in their predictions and in research on origins of various climatic phenomena. Prepared largely by Charles F. Brooks '11, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, the survey has been published as part of a massive German handbook of climatology which upon completion will present the important weather facts of the whole world...
Interest in the faculty's petition on the proposal was heightened when it was learned that Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, in an article written for the "Encyclopedia of Social Sciences" several years ago, took a decidedly unfavorable position on the question of increasing the membership of the Court...
...gamer owns and is at liberty to use what he wagers; 2) he acts of his free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality between the parties to the game. Nevertheless gambling has been denounced by saints, church councils, Popes.* Of gambling, the Catholic Encyclopedia remarks: "If indulged in to excess it leads to loss of time, and usually of money; to an idle and useless life spent in the midst of bad company and unwholesome surroundings; and to scandal which is a source of sin and ruin to others. It panders to the craving for excitement...
Most Popular Red. In Russia the political setup has now come to such a pass that production of the Soviet Encyclopedia of Literature has been halted, Soviet history books printed only recently have been withdrawn from the schools by order of Stalin, and a dispatch last week announced that the Commissariats for Education were expected to put some old Tsarist history books into Russian pupils' hands again. Reason: Soviet educators can agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent...